Fresh off a successful kickoff event, Building Salt Lake is preparing to host an informational session and tour that's focused on a bygone and misunderstood type of housing known as Missing Middle Housing. Our Missing Middle Housing Discussion and Tour will focus on...
Depot District
UDOT admits I-15 widening will cut into parks and school ball fields, while demolishing scores of homes and businesses
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Home Depot looking to build a new store near the Depot District in Salt Lake City
Registration is now open for the Building Salt Lake Events Kickoff on May 23. Join us as we build the hive mind and focus on issues that are important for the future of Salt Lake City. The Home Depot is under contract on a new store in Salt Lake City, an attorney...
In pictures: Depot District update
It's been a minute since we updated readers on the buildout progress of the Depot District, just to the west and south of the Gateway Mall on Downtown's western edge. Current development is occuring in the context of the empty lots of the Redevelopment Agency, UTA's...
Organizers of The Rio Grande Plan to host event at the library next week
The organizers of the citizen-led plan to transform the transit experience in the Depot District while simultaneously freeing up dozens of acres of land for the city to expand its footprint are holding a panel discussion next week about the proposal. The Rio Grande...
Rio Grande Plan: Top 10 reasons Salt Lake City should move its rail lines underground
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UTA’s new office HQ mixed-use tower will anchor a renewed transit hub at 600 West. Is the Rio Grande Plan dead?
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In pictures: Depot District construction transforming west Downtown
Just west and south of the Gateway Mall, housing projects are coming to fruition that look to transform this part of the city. In a neighborhood long dominated by railroads, the Interstate, and many people's comings and goings (it's called the Gateway for a reason), a...
New hotel conversion in Union Pacific building is on track for construction after crowdfunding, years of COVID-related delays
Developers still plan to add a hotel onto the backside of the historic Union Pacific building Downtown, although the Planning Commission gave them another year to figure out financing that has delayed the project on the north end of the Gateway mall. While the Athens...
Mayor moves to temporarily ban new homeless shelters from all zones in Salt Lake City
Amid a push by state officials to locate another homeless shelter in Salt Lake City’s Ballpark neighborhood, Mayor Erin Mendenhall moved late last night to temporarily ban new shelters in all zones across the capital. If finalized, pending ordinance notice would last...
The Rio Grande Plan, updated: Putting trains underground in Depot and Granary Districts gets Salt Lake City’s attention
A plan designed by citizen-professionals that would reinvigorate train transport, remove barriers between Downtown and the city’s west side, and free up hundreds of acres to redevelopment has been making its way to some “important stakeholders” since we last reported....
Taking a look at the design of the new Huxley Apartments in the Depot District
Developers have submitted plans for their single-use residential building in the city’s Depot District on the quickly developing west side of Downtown Salt Lake City. The latest rendition of the Huxley Apartments has been updated since we wrote about the proposal...












